Going Too Far

I'm tired of anyone who is involved with a government agency screaming "racial profiling" and demanding ... a person's head on a platter. This time, it's the parents and "interested parties" who want an elementary school principal fired because she directed the school secretary to call "9-1-1, the police" when a young boy came to the office with a gash in his forehead from a playground accident. The principal has apologized to the parents, as well as the "interested parties," but that was not good enough: the media has added coverage of a public meeting involving anyone who wanted to attend it to hear the principal apologize publicly and then accuse her of trying to "cover up" a blatant issue of racial profiling.

The hue and cry leads one to believe that it was indeed with evil intent that the principal directed school personnel to call the police -- and there is absolutely no reason to believe it was simply a wrong word choice in the heat of the moment. This same site principal had to deal with a major automobile accident that involved a car breaking through the safety fence surrounding the school and hitting school children out for recess. It could have been that the principal misspoke in the heat of the moment as her brain flashed back to the children injured in that incident.

Okay, so maybe the principal should have said call "9-1-1, the paramedics," but I seriously doubt that the school personnel were thinking, as the parents allege, that the child was quite possibly in the country illegally, so call the police and have the child detained until the parents get there and immigration status can be verified. If this is the only way people can get their 15 minutes of media fame, we need to work to find other more appropriate ways to use time on the evening news.